In  How to read movie by Roger Ebert, he talks about the different meanings to analyzing a movie, and what different angels mean, and different approaches to scenes, and why different angles can tackle scenes in different ways. I have never really analyzed a movie beyond just watching it, and giving my opinion of it. […]

For this assignment (worth five stars), we were asked to create a montage for someone special in our lives. While scrolling through the video assignment bank, I came across this assignment and I knew I had to do it.  Originally, I was going to make a montage of my mom but I couldn’t find enough pictures … Continue reading Best Friend Montage

For this task, we were asked to watch a video clip of our choice (from a selection) to watch and analyze the video alone, audio alone, and video and audio together.  For this, I chose a clip from Dumb and Dumber, … Continue reading →

Today’s Daily Create has to be one of my favorite to date.  Seeing my blog’s title is The Little Things in Life, I love doing those small little things for friends.  So seeing the prompt to write a sweet message to … Continue reading →

Where do I begin? Well first and foremost- there’s no single person I choose that personifies “special” to me. I have a lot of people that have really impacted the way I live, how I view things, and how I grow into the person I am becoming. Today’s daily create honestly, left me with internal … Continue reading My Mush-Fest letter

This post may be only 3 stars (while the most video assignments are 4 or 5) but it’s time consuming if the internet does not want to corporate with you. After choosing to do this I assignment, I had to choose which song and music video I wanted to use. For the music video, I chose Taylor … Continue reading Classical-Modern Mashup Tutorial →

This video assignment was to use a modern music video and add classical music to it. I decided to use Taylor Swift’s Blank space and Boccherini featured in Master in Commander. I love Taylor Swift, she is my favorite musician which is why I chose her music video Blank Space. I also love the violin … Continue reading Taylor Swift to Boccherini →

The assignment was to bring together highlights of my favorite player into a video. I chose Tom Brady, who plays on the New England Patriots, because he’s the quarterback for my favorite team. He knows how to bring together the team to achieve success. I created this video on iMovie by looking up clips of … Continue reading Tom Brady Highlights →

If I could choose anywhere in the world to go to, I would choose Australia.  I’m an avid traveler and Australia is one of the places I am dying to visit.  One of the best parts about Australia is you don’t have to learn a new language (a definite plus)!  I have some family friends … Continue reading My Dream Vacation

The clip was taken from just before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When observing the clip without sound, I noticed some camera techniques written about in Robert Ebert’s article (http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/how-to-read-a-movie) and shown in a video of Quentin Tarantino scenes taken from various movies (https://vimeo.com/37540504). Firstly, I noticed that the Japanese tended to be on the right and the … Continue reading A look into a scene of Pearl Harbor →

For this Look, Listen, Analyze write up, I chose to use the Dumb and Dumber (Pretty Woman) scene.  I’ve never seen the movie but I’ve heard a lot about it.  This one stood out to me above all because I love comedies and thought I would enjoy analyzing this one more than the other options … Continue reading Look, Listen, Analyze – Dumb and Dumber

Reading movies is quite the oxymoron unless we are speaking of reading the scripts of movies (which we are not). To read a movie is to delve into the techniques put into the film making process that enhance the telling of the story. There is something about a well directed/well made movie that leaves the … Continue reading Reading movies – an oxymoron? →

Roger Ebert was a film critic who taught a film class in the University of Chicago Fine Arts Program.  From his article, How To Read A Movie, he explains the different meanings behind different angle shots camera men use in today’s movies and TV shows. I like watching movies and TV shows, but never got into … Continue reading How to Read a Movie

Everything for the final week is due June 8th 2015 As a final project for this course, you are asked to produce a story around a character that explores all media forms we’ve investigated this semester: visual, design, audio and video, you are combining all techniques to create one blog post that uses all media.  That […]

For this Audio Assignment, worth 1.5 stars, we were asked to play the first song we learned of musical medium.  The first song I learned on the piano, which I played for almost 10 years, was “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. … Continue reading →

Strange title for a weekly summary, no? But ever since I came to the realization that this class is half over, I couldn’t get that song out of my head. “Hold On, we’re halfway there, oohhoohh, Livin’ on a Prayer” But enough silliness, let’s get down to business. (that rhymed)   I mentioned in my post about This American Life, that I think Ira Glass is an American Hero, right? If I didn’t,.. Read More

This week we worked with audio which provided great struggle.  It is one thing to do my own work, but to then record it with my voice makes it much more personal which is hard for me.  I also had … Continue reading →

Ira Glass sure is spectacular! My friend Kelsey has been trying to persuade me to listen to This American Life for almost a year now, and the whole time I have refused to do so, and insisted that the radio was boring and that NPR was a waste of time. Boy, don’t I look like a fool. Ira Glass is amazing, and This American Life is fascinating! I listened to the episode Dopplegangers.. Read More

Daily Creates: http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/daily-create-june-4th-2015/ http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/transportation-daily-create-june-5-2015/ http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/brides-throwing-cats-dc-june-6-2015/ http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/keeping-calm-dc-672015/ Audio Assignments: http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/downtown-weekend-gang-audio-assignment-worth-2-stars/ http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/sandlot-remixed-assignment/ Thoughts and Ideas: Audio Reflection http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/how-i-got-into-college-by-ira-glass/ http://www.philiplohn.com/uncategorized/storytelling-ira-glass/ This week was a little tougher than the previous 2 weeks, I had some problems with the software Audacity, it was new and I had to adjust, I had some problems with sound while using sound cloud, but […]

Another week passed by and I can’t believe how fast it flew by. This week seemed easier than the other weeks. When I saw that it is audio that we will be covering this week, I was not too keen about it. I like music a lot, but when it comes to stuff like this, … Continue reading Weekly Evaluation Numero Tres →

This week’s assignments were tougher than I thought they would be, but I had a lot of fun using the applications and creating the audio. Audacity was a fairly simple and straight forward application I had to use, and the only problems I had this week were uploaded the final products for my audio assignments. … Continue reading Weekly Summary Numero Tres

When I observed other people’s blogs and their assignments, I appreciate how unique each one is. Even though, we don’t know each other or “go back to the good ol’ days”, I am able to tell a little about the kind of person they are. Mainly due to their interests, how they word their posts, … Continue reading You Learn best from others

I watched these two videos from Ira Glass on storytelling, I thought these videos were really interesting and I learned what his take is on storytelling. He talks about understanding the building blocks of storytelling, and how important it is to build a sequence so that each event falls within a certain time and everything […]

For this Audio Assignment, worth 3.5 stars, we were asked to write a poem that sets the scene for our blog.  Since my blog is The Little Things in Life, I wrote a poem containing some of the little things … Continue reading →

I was asked to listen to three audio stories and instead of talking about the story itself, I need to talk about how the story is told.  The first story is the “Third Party” it is a story about an independent candidate running for Congress and he is being targeted by a serial killer.  The … Continue reading The Truth →

I’ve said a numerous amount of times in my posts how much I was not thrilled in approaching this week’s work. I am not an “auditory” person. But, quite a few things over the week has shifted my opinion on audio storytelling quite a bit. First, by listening to Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad, two … Continue reading Learning is a Continuous Process

This week’s Daily Create’s had a lot of shapes going on. The first Daily Create I did this week asked us to draw a circle, and then put whatever we like into the middle of said circle. Although I had originally planned to pass this one by and do different daily creates to fulfill my requirement, after I got home from work, I went to the embroidery projects I have in the works,.. Read More

I began this assignment (worth 3 stars), with one thing in mind: to make the Game of thrones theme even more epic than it already is. How would I do this? By making the it go even slower! So why choose a theme to a series known for it’s violent tendencies, and controversial scenes all … Continue reading Let’s take it slow

“The Babe”: Let me tell you something kid; Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either because they’re too scared, or they don’t recognize it when it spits on their shoes Original movie quote. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0108037/quotes?qt=qt0444504 Remixed movie quote. Let me tell you something kid, you had 2 chances to […]

Howdy! (The Final Product is down below) For this assignment (worth 4 stars), I tried my hand at making my own personal theme. Is it good? Probably not, but the beat is pretty catchy! Coming up with a theme for myself was really hard, to be honest I had no idea in mind. I just knew … Continue reading Personal Anthem